Chione (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (Ancient Greek: Χιονη from χιών – chiōn, "snow") may refer to the following women:
- Chione, daughter of Boreas and mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.[1]
- Chione, daughter of Daedalion, and mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively.[2]
- Chione, daughter of Callirrhoe, who was changed into a snow cloud.[3]
- Chione, daughter of Arcturus, who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons.[4]
- Chione, mother of Priapus by Dionysus.[5]
- Chione, one of the Niobids.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Grimal, s.v. Chione; Smith, s.v. Chione 1.; Apollodorus, 3.15.2, 1.9.21; Pausanias, 1.38.2.
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI, 301
- ↑ Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil Book 4.250.
- ↑ Aelian, On Animals 11. 1
- ↑ Scholia on Theocritus, 1. 21
- ↑ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 159
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